Strategic Enrollment Planning Overview and Estimated Timeline
March 19-20
- Complete the Preparation phase
- SEP Council organization meeting and SEP briefing for new members
- Develop communication, participation, and support plans
- Continue the KPI Identification and Situation Analysis phases
- Complete the KPIs and qualitative SWOT analysis that will drive research priorities
- Review progress of the research projects and establish estimated completion dates
April
- Continue the KPI Identification phase
May
- Continue the Situation Analysis phase
- Review the progress of remaining research projects
- Begin the Strategy Development and Quantifiable Goal Identification phase
- Review the one page research summaries and begin to identify possible strategies
June
- Continue the Strategy Development and Quantifiable Goal Identification phase
- Review additional one page research summaries to identify additional strategies
- Prioritize and organize potential strategies
- Assign potential strategies for further development, including possible additional information gathering
- Begin the Action and Support Plan Development phase
- Begin to make estimates of the actions and resources needed to support each potential strategy
September
- Continue the Strategy Development and Quantifiable Goal Identification Phase
- Review the potential strategies for estimated resources and potential payoffs
- Prioritize the strategies to be pursued
- Begin to develop scenarios for enrollment projections and required resources
- Continue the Action and Support Plan Development phase
- Develop resource strategies to support the emerging strategies
- Further develop and implement communications, participation, and support plans
- Introduce the elements of the Plan Evaluation and Modification phase
October/November
- Complete the Strategy Development and Quantifiable Goal phase
- Finalize strategies and quantifiable enrollment goals
- Finalize resource strategies for each component of the plan
- Complete the Action and Support Plan Development Phase
- Implement university-wide support plans
- Assign implementation responsibilities for each component of the plan
- Complete the Plan Evaluation and Modification phase
- Develop procedures and acceptable metrics for evaluating the execution quality, funding, and timeliness.
- Develop monitoring procedures for these metrics.
- Establish scorecards to measure KPI.
- Develop monitoring procedures for scorecards.
- Establish procedures for modifying the plan.